TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Mark M.
TI  - Mastered by the clock: time, slavery, and freedom in the American South 
T2  - Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
SN  - 0807823449
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Time
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Sociology
KW  - USA
KW  - South
KW  - Regional time
KW  - Smith, Mark M
KW  - Timekeeper (general)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-291) and index; Time in southern slave society --; Times democratic : clocks, watches, makers, and owners, 1700-1900 --; Taming time's pinions, weaving time's web : of times natural, sacred, and secular, 1700-1900 --; Apostles of progress, agents of time : consolidating time consciousness in the south, 1750-1865 --; Master time, 1750-1865 --; Time in African American work and culture --; New south, old time --; Times hegemonic : standard time
N2  - This is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a promodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners - particularly masters and their slaves - came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time
ER  -